The stats are coming in and it shows that the people are demanding more than just top 40 music! Highlander Radio has set an all time record of 50,000 listening hours for the past 30 days (modem and broadband streams combined). That would be like 1 person listening to Highlander Radio non-stop (without sleep) for nearly 6 years!

Thanks to our dedicated listeners, our broadband stream is the 132nd most listened to radio station on shoutcast.com. That's out of nearly 5,000 stations!!! Our modem stream is #324. So, if we combine the 2 streams I am sure we are somewhere in the top 100 stations.

A big thank you for the donations (both financial and bandwidth) that keep our site and broadcast going!

so.............any others............................? I sent an email to his label asking that they contact you. Did they?

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Caw

"I am a Canadian by birth, but I am a Highlander by blood and feel under an obligation to do all I can for the sake of the Highlanders and their literature.... I have never yet spoken a word of English to any of my children. They can speak as much English as they like to others, but when they talk to me they have to talk in Gaelic."

A few months ago I was asked to complete a poll on Radio Stations that listened to for a week.

My poll showed that I listened to radio for 0 (zero) hours per week. That was before I found Celtic Radio. This is the only station I listen to and now I probably listen for 100 hours or more a week. Love this station, keep up the good work.

Here's to ya.

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May your days be filled with Merriment and May you walk in Balance with Creator.

Ditto to Richard! Until I found Highlander Radio, I had given up on radio. Noone played anything that was that great and what was played had a few minutes of commercials and DJ chatter every 2-3 songs. Highlander Radio doesn't have that, which is part of what I love about it. I've started trying to think again on how I can finance getting a server hosted because of this. Right now I find myself wishing I could donate computing resources to helping Highlander Radio. Just a matter of figuring out how to finance rental of rack space and Bandwidth =) Building the box would be just a one time thing, not worried there.. Then there's the matter of all the stuff I might not know of... How many other people have gotten the idea that a relay point to take the load off of Paul's servers might be a good idea?

And no, I don't have a clue what is involed in this beyond hardware and software. I figure that if this ever became a practicality, then I'd learn that when the time came.

I have been listening to this station for at least the last eighteen months and it is amazing the continual improvements you bring to us.

You do realize where this is heading don't you? One day the Scottish bar thread and this one will be combined to form an

Annual Highlander Radio Highland Festival

so that all the people you have brought together through the music can meet and have a great time.

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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner

If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles,how can it be called progress?